XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems

14.1. Introduction

Human exploration and development of space will involve opening the space frontier by exploring, using, and enabling the development of space through information technology, while expanding the human experience into the far reaches of space. At that point in time we assert that the current primitive World Wide Web (Web) will be replaced and dramatically expanded into an interstellar Space Wide Web (SWW). The current state-of-the-art low-orbit communications satellites constellations will be dramatically expanded to higher orbits and to orbits supporting work on remote human colonies. This will be necessary in order to furnish in a human-friendly way the necessary software and information that will be needed in support of interstellar ...